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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-07-27, Page 4Page 4 Times -Advocate, July 27, 1988 Times Established 18- t Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 imes dvocate Published Each Wednesday Morning at Exeter. Ontario, NOM Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386, Phone ROSS 1141 CFI lditur 519-235-1331 PCNA • ILM BECATTI Publisher & Adtiertising %tanager HARR`, DRRItS DO% SMITH Composition Manages Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada: $25.00 Per year; U.S.A. $65.00 1SO Safety all year long While the focus is on Farm Safety this week right across Canada, it should be practiced 365 days of the year. When a variety of topics come up about ,tragic things happening, the comment is sometimes heard, "Well, it doesn't hap- pen around here". . That is not the case when it comes to farm safety. It can happen right here in our Huron county area as was so dramati- cally shown in an excellent story written last week on farm safety by Yvonne Re- ynolds. Those attending the farm safety seminar heard personal testimony from fellows like Neil Stapleton, Don MacGregor and John Paul Rau who know that it can hap- pen to anyone. They will be the -first to tell you that safety rules should be practiced every day of the week and every week of the year and the emphasis should be placed on making farmers aware that eternal vigi- lance is the price of safety. Statistics just released by the Canada Safety Council show that 104 Canadians died in farm -related accidents in 1986. Provincially, Ontario was the highest with 30 percent of all farm deaths fol- lowed by Saskatchewan 21 percent, Al- berta 20 percent and Quebec 11 percent. Safety campaigns seem to be helping in making everyone aware of dangers on the farm. From 1976 to 1986 farm fatalities dropped from 190 to 104. That is a 45 percent decline in 11 years. As part of this year's campaign, the Safety Council is urging all farm families to take a summer safety hike to determine if hazards exist around their farms. There are more dangers on the farm than what can meet the eye. Due to the ex- treme hot and dry weather experienced this year, there will likely be higher lev- els of silo gas and high nitrates in corn. Farmers are being asked to wait at -least three weeks before entering a silo after it has been filled. Nitrates build up in corn and could cause poisoning in cattle. Please participate in National Farm Safety Week '88 and help make rural Canada a safer place to work and live. Then continue the same practice for the other 51 weeks of the year. By Ross Haugh On the beach Whcn city pcoplc want a vacation, they come to the country. But whcrc do rural folk — whose whole life, as everyone knows, is one continuous holiday — go when they need a break from all that bliss? They go to the lake. To the beach. To stretch out in the sun, to swim, to water :ski. They wear sun glasses and bathing suits and pretend to be like everybody else. This rural family is no different. Every ycar we go on the trek, in two cars packed to the rafters with lawn chairs, rubber diphies, tennis rackets, suitcases, r�or;:xss• 3 'flys, books, cameras, ghetto blasters, and all the other paraphernalia that .simple pcoplc living in the country need to survive. We get to the lake. Within twenty minutes of our arrival the cabin resembles a Canadian Tire warehouse, and the sandy strip in front of it looks Iikc Normandy Beach on D -Day. As soon as they have created this chaos — which they call "helping to unpack" — the kids disappear, not to surface again until supper time. It takes Elizabeth that long to straighten things out; to lay every item of clothing in its proper place in its proper drawer, and to direct me to move the furniture around, to open the windows, to adjust thc fridge, to fetch ice cubes, to put a hook here and a t clothes line there. After supper (which thank goodness we cat at the lodge), there is time for a quick walk to the boat dock before bedtime starts. Bedtime starts whcn Elizabeth says: "I think the children arc exhausted; they should be in bed fairly early tonight. Do you feel like rounding them up?" Since that is always exactly the way I feel, I put on my spurs, PETER'S POINT Duncan is thc most difficult to track down because he is so quiet. Using a moose call as a megaphone, 1 finally make contact with him at the wood pile whcrc he is trying to find a suitable block of wood for me to carve. I help with the selection, and then 1 make my first promise of the week: "Ycs, I will carve you a knife tomorrow". My second promise comes five minutes later: "Ycs, we will have a camp fire tomorrow night", with the adjunct "Ycs, 1' will go to Frasers and buy some hot dogs and marshmallows". • ArSo the days at the lake pass by. With nature walks, mosquito bites, poison ivy, splinters in feet, glass in feet, entangled fishing lines, lost hats, interrupted games of tennis, fctch my lasso, mount my pony and ride off into the sunset to find my children. Alexander is out on the diving dock, fishing. I transfer from pony to rowboat and rope him in, 'together with his tackle box, pail and sickly sun fish. Stephanie is getting ready to give her doll carriage a wash in thc lake, and she has to be convinced that (a) it is bed time, and (h) that this particular type of doll carriage docs not lend itself to total immersion. She disagrees with both "premises and offers resistance which can only be overcome by what i call the quick pickup system. whittling, trips to Frasers, ping- pong lessons, bruised toes in the horseshoe pit, and tears over a Lost game of tether ball. Thcrc are many happy hours of swimming and canoeing, motorboating, fishing, spotting blue herons, listening to early morning loons, watching glorious sunsets, singing campfire songs, and playing volleyball. Thcrc is usually time for at least one hour of 'peace and quiet when 1 tic on thc beach in a lawn chair, alone, soaking up the sun, wondcring what on earth we would do if we couldn't comc to thc lake, to thc beach, to relax. Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 Published by J.W. Eedy Publications Limited "I, TOO, AM A BIG FAN OF SOHN TURNER... BUT THEN, I'M A TORY." A good place to visit We have talked to a number of people who were on the recent bus trip through the southern portion of the territory covered by the Ausable Bayfield Conser- vation Authority and all were thoroughly impressed with what they saw. Due to the hot weather on Sat- urday July 16 and other commit- ments we joined the close to 1(X) people at Rock Glen for Lunch. For those who have never been to the conservation arca at Rock Glen, you are really miss- ing something. A visit there on a comfortable summer day could be very enjoyable whether it be for a picnic or a siesta with na- ture. Thanks to Summer Experi- ence students and Authority field staff, stcps have been erected to carry a person all the way from the bottom of the gorge to the top. Rock Glen superintendent Andy Buchan told us that 125 steps arc in the stairway system and although we didn't walk along much of the way, we know it will be very helpful, to persons of all ages. When the Authority Founda- tion purchased an all terrain vehi- cle a year ago from and with the co-operation of Huron Tractor we wcrc told it would help Bu- chan in his supervision of the park arca. Now we know how true that is. When we arrived at Rock Glen to catch up with thc tour, just a few of thc visitors wcrc still at the museum which has also recently been built. After taking a picture at the -museum we wcrc about to fol- low the others through the trails to the picnic arca when along came Andy Buchan with his handy vehicle and we hitched a tide through hill and dale. When lunch was over Andy was right on the scene and away we were again on another ride to look over the stairway system and then taken right back to our car. We only get down to that portion of thc Arkona arca a couple of times a year, but it's pa, From the r;editor's disk by Ross Flaugh always pleasant to drop in for what is most of the time a breath of fresh air and enjoyment of nature at its best. Thanks for the ride, Andy. * * * * A couple of weeks ago on our editorial page in the Back in Time column it was mentioned the sports editor of the T A in 1968 had his car stolen and the main reason was that the keys wcrc left in the ignition. We plead guilty as suggested and can still remember the inci- dent very clearly. it was a Thursday afternoon and we pulled up directly in front of dIMIM Fink's Butcher Shop adjacent to thc T -A and intended to pop into thc office -for only a minute to make a phone call.. -One thing led to another and it was close to an hour before emerging from the office. Look- ing up and down the street the car was nowhere in sight. Into the butcher shop we go to in- quire about the whereabouts of the vehicle and Harold Boltz- mann says, " Ycs, I saw a guy drive away a few minutes ago". It was almost a week before the car was found behind a barn in.a field near Granton. It seems whoever took The car only want- ed to get from one point to an- other. Since that time, the keys arc removed from the car when we stop. Most of the time, that is. We have heard from a little birdie that the same thing hap- pened to a resident of Exeter in recent days. This time the car was found only a short distance from whcrc it was originally parked. Again the keys were readily available. That long awaited rain on the weekend of July 16 and 17 did wonders for arca farm crops. Al- though some areas to the south received more moisture•than in the immediate Exctcr arca, it did a lot of good. A drive through the country- side last Tuesday night after the paper was put to bed was enjoy- able. it appeared as all of the crops wcrc looking up and say- ing "thank you'. Filter the truth In the early days of television it was quite easy to resist the hard - sell commercials which bom- barded us without ceasing. Sure- ly nobody rushed out to buy Ipa- na toothpaste after watching a very toothy • beaver nasally 'singing' "Brusha-brusha bru- sha, new ipana toothpasc. it's dandy for your tee-ccth." What is a little more frightening to mc now is thc soft -sell com- mercials which are very carefully devised to hold your attention and keep you watching long enough to keep you at your set and not heading for the refrigera- tor. Michael Jackson gets paid millions of dollars to do a Pepsi slot and docs his job very profes- sicnally. However, it is not his responsibility to suggest that he is selling a product which is full of sugar and ruins people's teeth. Most of us forget that many of By the Way .hy Syd Fletcher these 30 second commercials cost far more to produce than the 30 minutc program which is lac- ing sponsored by it, which is probably a sad commentary about our values. Beer commercials arc done su- perbly. They arc full of colour and arc often truly funny. The unfortunate part of them though is that they depict a certain life style which 1 am sure strikes youngsters as being desirable. The pcoplc in thc slots arc' young, handsome, attractive, successful and seem to be having fun. That fun seems to be inex- tricably entwined with the con- sumption of alcohol. As parents and teachers, it is important that we take time to point out to children the impor- tance of filtering out truth from half-truth when they observe the world around them through tele- vision and radio. HAVE AN OPINION? The Times -Advocate Welcomes letters to the editor. They must be signed and should be accompanied by a telephone number should we need to clarify any information. The newspaper also reserves the rightto edit letters. Letters can be dropped off at the Times Advocate Office or mailed to: Exeter Times Advocate Box 850, Exeter, Ontario NOM 1S0 Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 Published by J.W. Eedy Publications Limited "I, TOO, AM A BIG FAN OF SOHN TURNER... BUT THEN, I'M A TORY." A good place to visit We have talked to a number of people who were on the recent bus trip through the southern portion of the territory covered by the Ausable Bayfield Conser- vation Authority and all were thoroughly impressed with what they saw. Due to the hot weather on Sat- urday July 16 and other commit- ments we joined the close to 1(X) people at Rock Glen for Lunch. For those who have never been to the conservation arca at Rock Glen, you are really miss- ing something. A visit there on a comfortable summer day could be very enjoyable whether it be for a picnic or a siesta with na- ture. Thanks to Summer Experi- ence students and Authority field staff, stcps have been erected to carry a person all the way from the bottom of the gorge to the top. Rock Glen superintendent Andy Buchan told us that 125 steps arc in the stairway system and although we didn't walk along much of the way, we know it will be very helpful, to persons of all ages. When the Authority Founda- tion purchased an all terrain vehi- cle a year ago from and with the co-operation of Huron Tractor we wcrc told it would help Bu- chan in his supervision of the park arca. Now we know how true that is. When we arrived at Rock Glen to catch up with thc tour, just a few of thc visitors wcrc still at the museum which has also recently been built. After taking a picture at the -museum we wcrc about to fol- low the others through the trails to the picnic arca when along came Andy Buchan with his handy vehicle and we hitched a tide through hill and dale. When lunch was over Andy was right on the scene and away we were again on another ride to look over the stairway system and then taken right back to our car. We only get down to that portion of thc Arkona arca a couple of times a year, but it's pa, From the r;editor's disk by Ross Flaugh always pleasant to drop in for what is most of the time a breath of fresh air and enjoyment of nature at its best. Thanks for the ride, Andy. * * * * A couple of weeks ago on our editorial page in the Back in Time column it was mentioned the sports editor of the T A in 1968 had his car stolen and the main reason was that the keys wcrc left in the ignition. We plead guilty as suggested and can still remember the inci- dent very clearly. it was a Thursday afternoon and we pulled up directly in front of dIMIM Fink's Butcher Shop adjacent to thc T -A and intended to pop into thc office -for only a minute to make a phone call.. -One thing led to another and it was close to an hour before emerging from the office. Look- ing up and down the street the car was nowhere in sight. Into the butcher shop we go to in- quire about the whereabouts of the vehicle and Harold Boltz- mann says, " Ycs, I saw a guy drive away a few minutes ago". It was almost a week before the car was found behind a barn in.a field near Granton. It seems whoever took The car only want- ed to get from one point to an- other. Since that time, the keys arc removed from the car when we stop. Most of the time, that is. We have heard from a little birdie that the same thing hap- pened to a resident of Exeter in recent days. This time the car was found only a short distance from whcrc it was originally parked. Again the keys were readily available. That long awaited rain on the weekend of July 16 and 17 did wonders for arca farm crops. Al- though some areas to the south received more moisture•than in the immediate Exctcr arca, it did a lot of good. A drive through the country- side last Tuesday night after the paper was put to bed was enjoy- able. it appeared as all of the crops wcrc looking up and say- ing "thank you'. Filter the truth In the early days of television it was quite easy to resist the hard - sell commercials which bom- barded us without ceasing. Sure- ly nobody rushed out to buy Ipa- na toothpaste after watching a very toothy • beaver nasally 'singing' "Brusha-brusha bru- sha, new ipana toothpasc. it's dandy for your tee-ccth." What is a little more frightening to mc now is thc soft -sell com- mercials which are very carefully devised to hold your attention and keep you watching long enough to keep you at your set and not heading for the refrigera- tor. Michael Jackson gets paid millions of dollars to do a Pepsi slot and docs his job very profes- sicnally. However, it is not his responsibility to suggest that he is selling a product which is full of sugar and ruins people's teeth. Most of us forget that many of By the Way .hy Syd Fletcher these 30 second commercials cost far more to produce than the 30 minutc program which is lac- ing sponsored by it, which is probably a sad commentary about our values. Beer commercials arc done su- perbly. They arc full of colour and arc often truly funny. The unfortunate part of them though is that they depict a certain life style which 1 am sure strikes youngsters as being desirable. The pcoplc in thc slots arc' young, handsome, attractive, successful and seem to be having fun. That fun seems to be inex- tricably entwined with the con- sumption of alcohol. As parents and teachers, it is important that we take time to point out to children the impor- tance of filtering out truth from half-truth when they observe the world around them through tele- vision and radio.